West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola will use his Italian contacts to secure a
deal for Bayern Munich’s out-of-favour striker Luca Toni in the January
transfer window.

The Italian international has seen his first team opportunities dwindle at Bayern since the arrival of Mario Gomez from Stuttgart and Ivica Olic from Hamburg.

However, Toni continues to be part of the Italian national team set up and Zola believes that the lure of regular first team football at Upton Park will be enough to tempt him to come to England, according to a report in the Mirror newspaper.